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First published 1926

Modern Economic Problems

by Frank A. Fetter

NY: Century, 1926620 pagesUpdated October 5, 2007

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Author
Frank A. Fetter
First published
1926
Format
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
Pages
620
Publisher
NY: Century
License
Public domain by publication date.

Austrian theory & method

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620 pages, 35 chapters, and about 192,962 words in the edition this archive serves.
Who wrote Modern Economic Problems?
Frank Albert Fetter (1863–1949) was the leading figure of the early Austrian School of economics in the United States. This archive holds 4 of Fetter's works.

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35 chapters · 192,962 words · free to read here

  1. Part I: Money and Prices
  2. Part II: Banking and Insurance
  3. Chapter 7: The Functions of Banks
  4. Chapter 8: Banking in the United States before 1914
  5. Chapter 9: The Federal Reserve Act
  6. Chapter 10: Crises and Industrial Depressions
  7. Chapter 11: Institutions for Saving and Investment
  8. Chapter 12: Principles of Insurance
  9. Chapter 13: Scientific Life Insurance
  10. Part II: Tariff and Taxation
  11. Chapter 14: American Tariff History
  12. Chapter 15: International Trade
  13. Chapter 16: The Policy of a Protective Staff
  14. Chapter 17: Objects and Principles of Taxation
  15. Chapter 18: Property and Corporation Taxes
  16. Chapter 19: Personal Taxes
  17. Part IV: Wages and Labor
  18. Chapter 21: Organized Labor
  19. Chapter 22: Public Regulation of Hours and Wages
  20. Chapter 23: Other Protective Labor and Social Legislation
  21. Chapter 24: Social Insurance
  22. Chapter 25: Population and Immigration
  23. Part V: Public Policy Toward Private Industry
  24. Chapter 26: Agricultural and Rural Population
  25. Chapter 27: Problems of Agricultural Economics
  26. Chapter 28: The Transportation Problem
  27. Chapter 29: Railroad Regulation
  28. Chapter 30: The Problem of Industrial Monopoly
  29. Chapter 31: Public Policy in Respect to Monopoly
  30. Part VI: Private Property Versus Socialism
  31. Chapter 33: Public Ownership
  32. Chapter 34: Methods of Distribution
  33. Chapter 35: Socialism, Present and Future
  34. Index
  35. About this edition
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Frank A. Fetter 1863–1949

Frank Albert Fetter (1863–1949) was the leading figure of the early Austrian School of economics in the United States. Born in rural Indiana, he earned a doctorate at the University of Halle in 1894 and taught at Cornell, Indiana, and… Read more about Frank A. Fetter.

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  • Fiat Money Cannot Last. Or Can It?

    Thorsten Polleit · Austrian Scholars Conference 2011

    Frank Fetter, for instance, in his 1926 book, Modern Economic Problems, wrote on fiat money, which he called political money, quote, political money resorted to in desperate extremities has usually proved to be a costly experiment.

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